Clinical heterogeneity of the SLC26A4 gene in UAE patients with hearing loss and bioinformatics investigation of DFNB4/Pendred syndrome missense mutations.

xloma.fota.13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Clinical heterogeneity of the SLC26A4 gene in UAE patients with hearing loss and bioinformatics investigation of DFNB4/Pendred syndrome missense mutations. Via International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology,http://goo.gl/4YdRhz Related Articles Clinical heterogeneity of the SLC26A4 gene in UAE patients with hearing loss and bioinformatics investigation of DFNB4/Pendred syndrome missense mutations. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2020 Nov 09;:110467 Authors: Chouchen J, Mahfood M, Alobathani M, Eldin Mohamed WK, Tlili A Abstract BACKGROUND: The development of next generation sequencing-based techniques showed an important progress in the identification of pathogenic variants related to monogenetic diseases with genetic and phenotypic heterogeneities. Hereditary hearing loss is considered as one of these heterogeneous diseases, given the large number of deafness causing genes, the different modes of inheritance and the phenotypic variabilities associated to the severity, age of onset and/or presence or absence of other clinical manifestations. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this study, we performed next-generation sequencing (NGS) in 51 UAE patients with hearing loss and no GJB2 mutations. In addition, we reviewed all reported SLC26A4 missense mutations with a confirmed DFNB4/Pendred syndrome phenotype and tried to find a genotype/phenotype correlation using different criteria. RESULTS: By analyzing the NGS data, we identified one new SLC26A4 variant c.1150G > C (p.Glu384Gln) and one known SLC26A4 mutation c.716T > A (p.Val239Asp) in two different patients. Direct Sanger sequencing and segregation analyses confirmed the implication of both DNA variants in the deafness phenotype. Moreover, the clinical examination of both patients showed that one patient has syndromic deafness (Pendred syndrome) and the second one has non-syndromic deafness. The analysis of all confirmed missense mutations didn't reveal a complete genotype/phenotype correlation. CONCLUSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of mutations associated with DFNB4/Pendred deafness in the GCC region. PMID: 33199029 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.